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Americans have unfavourable views on Islam
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 04:14:08 PM,
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Washington:
The number of Americans viewing Islam favourably has declined since
2005, but there is little change in those saying that Islam is more
likely than other religions to encourage violence, according to a
new poll.
As was the case a year ago, slightly more people say the Islamic
religion does not encourage violence more than other religions (42
percent) than say that it does (35 percent), the poll by the
nonpartisan Pew Research Centre found.
Amid controversy over the proposed construction of an Islamic
cultural centre and mosque near the former site of the World Trade
Centre, more Americans agree with those who object to the building
of the centre than with the supporters of the project (51 percent to
34 percent).
At the same time, 62 percent say that Muslims should have the same
rights as other religious groups to build houses of worship in their
local communities; just 25 percent say local communities should be
able to block mosques in their area if they do not want them.
But more people have unfavourable than favourable views of Islam by
38 percent to 30 percent. In 2005, it was reversed: 41 percent had
favourable views, 36 percent unfavourable.
Republicans voiced negative views of Muslims by more than 2-1, with
54 voicing unfavourable views and 21 percent giving positive ones.
Among Democrats, 41 percent had favourable opinions while 27 percent
viewed them negatively.
Views of Muslims were also unfavourable among independents, older
people and those with less education.
While those who are younger than 50 have mixed views of Islam, 44
percent among those older than 50 have an unfavourable opinion of
Islam as against 24 percent favourable.
By a margin of 47 percent to 28 percent, college graduates express
favourable opinions of Islam; pluralities of those with less
education express unfavourable views.
The survey was conducted Aug 19-22 involved landline and cell
telephone interviews with 1,003 randomly chosen adults. It has a
margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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